This secondary alcohol has many uses, but mainly is it utilized as a cleaning
agent, known as industrial alcohol, isopropanol or IPA. IPA and acetone have
great ability to dissolve or resolve themselves into other substances, and both
smells pleasant. It dissolves in all oils and motor fuels including diesel. In
view of this is it used as a component of gas-dryer (carburetor protection),
i.e. it absorbs water and lowers the fuels freezing point but also resolves up
and clean the fuel system from dirt. Like other alcohols is IPA bactericidal and
are therefore suitable as an additive in diesel fuel, as this alcohol dissolves
itself there. Compared with ethanol is IPA worse to achieve a low freezing
point, so in E85 makes it no use more than to reduce the opening-time, like
acetone - but it is only because that E85 contains 15% gasoline.

IPA can be more open time-reducing than acetone but it has
been found that the temperature of the fuel plays a crucial role when using
IPA. One can observe that the opening time reduces the warmer it gets and
at a certain temperature, it is the amount of IPA that controls the opening
time. IPA also works poorly with glycol additives regarding E85 and its
formations with gasoline - but for petrol should it works well.

The alcohol IPA is the chemical that is most similar to the ketone
acetone but IPA is not as aggressive and are less volatile, but it is more than;
ethanol, methanol and propanol. By the way, it is remarkable that acetone is
included in our bodies when it is such a strong solvent - as if one were Thinner
in the blood...

Pure IPA is not in the Swedish trade for private use, except pharmacies that
selling IPA in small bottles. The production takes place through the hydrogenation
of propene. Absolutely pure IPA obtained by catalytic hydrogenation of acetone.
Then acetone lacks two hydrogen atoms, one lets gas of acetone react with
hydrogen via a (poisoned) catalyst. IPA can be separated from a saline solution
because is refuses to resolve itself in certain salt solutions. If one for an example
mixing equal parts of water and IPA can one stratifies them by adding common
salt. IPA is then withdrawn at the top but a little salt dissolves in IPA, so the
next step should then be a distillation? The IPA that I bought at the pharmacy
(technical) burns with a yellow and sooty flame - it is apparently only methanol,
ethanol (pure) and propanol, which burns with a blue flame.

IPA have which I understand common characteristics as acetone, even in the
field of fuel additives. Contrary to what one might think is IPA not more
prolonged than acetone. Well, it should not evaporate as quickly as
acetone, when it can be dispensed in large quantities and therefore is less
volatile and reduction-willing with surrounding materials. IPA has no clear boundary
where its effect (reduction of the opening time) decreases as acetone have.
After the dose 1% (pure petrol) will not much more happen and if one adds
some more IPA shall no damage occur, since IPA like ethanol is an alcohol but
with even higher proportion of bound energy. Thus can IPA overdosed to make
sure that it does not vaporize over the time.

IPA does not function with DiG, i.e. copperas or MCO20.

Biltema has (as usual) the most affordable product in which IPA is included,
when "Karburatorskydd" is a carrier of IPA, in addition it also contains
a small amount of ethanol. Anyway, Biltema's carburetor-protection has high
solubility and can dissolve in diesel. It must be said that many C-sprites do not use
IPA and are instead based on naphtha. Petrosol is another, but slightly more
expensive brand. Unlike Biltema carburetor-protection can one separate the IPA
from it (with salt). Other available brands that are similar Petrosol, is Meko,
Polar, etc. Do it stand 2-propanol or propan-2-ol is it IPA.